The GOP lawmakers said that Tsarnaev met the definition of an
enemy combatant, which would prevent him from invoking rights to
remain silent and to an attorney. It would allow federal
interrogators to question Tsarnaev without reading him his
Miranda rights as a U.S. citizen under a "public safety"
exception.

"He’s a potential enemy combatant. He has ties with
overseas terrorists. He’s clearly a radical Islamist. I would
hold him under that theory," Graham said Monday on "Fox &
Friends."

"This idea that the only way we can question him about national
security matters is to go through his lawyer, turns [it] over to
the terrorist and their lawyer controlling information to protect
us all. That’s crazy. That is absolutely crazy. This man should
be held and questioned under the law of war."